@plainoldme,
plainoldme wrote:I think you build castles in the air.
You take weird once in a lifetime stories like this and build a case on them.
Exceptions do not make the rule.
This woman sounds more than a tad reactionary.
Consider how few . . . let me repeat,
FEW . . . stories of this kind one hears of.
In South Bend, Indiana, Tony D. Murray broke into a home occupied by Sue Gay,
an 80-year-old grandmother and her 11-year-old grandchild.
The intruder held a jagged box cutter to the grandmother's neck,
at which time the 11-year-old ran upstairs where he retrieved
a .45 revolver. The 11-year-old returned, pointed the gun
at the intruder, and shot and killed him.
"The young man reasonably believed his grandmother and himself to be
in danger of dying," the South Bend police said.
"It was clear to us this was a justifiable homicide. He did what he had to do."